County, Municipal and Island Flags (Lower Saxony, Germany)

Landkreis-, Gemeinde- und Inselflaggen

Last modified: 2002-06-14 by santiago dotor
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• County Flags (Landkreisflaggen):
  • Celle County (Landkreis Celle)
  • Hameln-Pyrmont County (Landkreis Hameln-Pyrmont)
  • Osnabrück County (Landkreis Osnabrück)
• County-Free City Flags (Flaggen kreisfreier Städte):
  • City of Brunswick (Stadt Braunschweig)
  • City of Delmenhorst (Stadt Delmenhorst)
  • City of Emden (Stadt Emden)
  • City of Hannover (Stadt Hannover)
  • City of Oldenburg (Stadt Oldenburg)
  • City of Osnabrück (Stadt Osnabrück)
  • City of Salzgitter (Stadt Salzgitter)
  • City of Wilhelmshaven (Stadt Wilhelmshaven)
  • City of Wolfsburg (Stadt Wolfsburg)
• Other Municipal Flags (andere Gemeindeflaggen)
  • City of Cuxhaven (Stadt Cuxhaven)
  • City of Damme (Stadt Damme)
  • Municipality of Garstedt (Gemeinde Garstedt)
  • City of Hildesheim (Stadt Hildesheim)
  • City of Jever (Stadt Jever)
  • City of Norden (Stadt Norden)
  • City of Papenburg (Stadt Papenburg)
• East Frisian Islands:
  • Baltrum (Gemeinde Baltrum)
  • Borkum (Stadt Borkum)
  • Juist (Gemeinde Juist)
  • Langeoog (Gemeinde Langeoog)
  • Norderney (Stadt Norderney)
  • Spiekeroog (Gemeinde Spiekeroog)
  • Wangerooge (Gemeinde Wangerooge)

See also:

• Current Use of Former States Flags (Lower Saxony / Niedersachsen, Germany)
• East Frisia (Ostfriesland)
• Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen, Germany)
• Germany

Other sites:

• Niedersachsen: Kreise at Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website
• Zwischen Borkum und Sylt: Die Wappen und Flaggen der deutschen Watteninseln (From Borkum to Sylt: Coats-of-Arms and Flags of the German 'Mud Islands', German text only) by Hans van Heijningen at Der Flaggenkurier website, images available in a zipped PDF file here

Flaggen kreisfreier Städte

There are nine county-free cities (kreisfreie Städte) in Lower Saxony: Brunswick, Delmenhorst, Emden, Hannover, Oldenburg, Osnabrück, Salzgitter, Wilhelmshaven and Wolfsburg.

Stefan Schwoon, 20 February 2001

Andere Gemeindeflaggen

Niedersach[s]en city flags [quoted from Flaggenmitteilung?]:

Municipality or Gemeinde	colours
Flottwedel	yellow-blue-yellow
Kirchlingen	red-yellow-red
Kreiensen	red-yellow
Ilsede	red-yellow
Holtriehm	yellow-green
Düdenbüttel	white-red
Sehnde	yellow-red-yellow
Bodenteich	white-red
Duderstadt	yellow-blue
Edemissen	blue-yellow-blue
Brome	red-white-red
Sickte	green-yellow
Wittmund	red-green-red
Wesendorf	red-blue-red
Northeim	blue-white
Ostrhauderfehn	red-yellow
Rehden	red-yellow
Rehburg-Loccum	red-white
Jemgum	green-yellow
Südbrookmerland	red-yellow
Uplengen	black-white
Brockel	yellow-blue-yellow
Emmerthal	yellow-blue

Jaume Ollé, 28 August 1999

The names of the municipalities contain a number of spelling mistakes, and some have become renamed or incorporated into other municipalities. This is a list of corrections/updates:

• Flottwedel: now part of Wietzendorf
• Kirchlingen: doesn't exist, maybe Kirchlinteln is meant?
• Holtriehm: possibly Holtriem, a Samtgemeinde (an association of several small municipalities) in the county Wittmund.
• Bodenteich: was recently declared a spa and is now named Bad Bodenteich

Stefan Schwoon, 11 February 2002

Gemeinde Garstedt

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by António Martins

Garstedt is a small town southeast of Hamburg, Kreis Harburg. On this webpage [broken link] of the independent voters (Unabhängige Wählergemeinschaft) of Garstedt appear the flag and coat-of-arms. The coat-of-arms is canting, as spear in old Germanic was gar.

Jarig Bakker, 20 February 2000

submitted by Jarig Bakker